Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[spectateur]

Anyone else got this 'super cold' or flu? I feel awful this week. Started with severe sickness and the squits

Oh dear, What an unhealthy place England seems to be.
Of our contacts there, this week 3 of them have heavy colds and a couple have gone down with covid.
You shouldn't have given up the wearing of masks in indoor public places.

 

[TN Toffee]

This has to be one of the most fantastic things ever posted on the internet. Calling people stupid for giving vaccine incentives, all while misspelling “bribing” and whatever the hell that attempt at “C’est la vie” was.

 

[efcfanwirral]

Oh dear, What an unhealthy place England seems to be.
Of our contacts there, this week 3 of them have heavy colds and a couple have gone down with covid.
You shouldn't have given up the wearing of masks in indoor public places.

To be fair there's the argument that by shying away from being exposed to any non-covid germs with masks and distancing that we've perhaps made ourselves more susceptible to that other stuff. Can't do that forever so may as well have been doing it between July and now, knowing winter will bring more masks, distancing etc

 

[Billy Dean]

This has to be one of the most fantastic things ever posted on the internet. Calling people stupid for giving vaccine incentives, all while misspelling “bribing” and whatever the hell that attempt at “C’est la vie” was.
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Anti vaxxers and corona conspiracy theorists all seem to have spelling problems

 

[BlueToff]

Oh dear, What an unhealthy place England seems to be.
Of our contacts there, this week 3 of them have heavy colds and a couple have gone down with covid.
You shouldn't have given up the wearing of masks in indoor public places.

It's just a bug, bugs go around everywhere as the seasons change

It's not a new thing

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Loads got sick from people I know this week. All are vaccinated (Pfizer) but they feel terrible. Coughing and whatnot. Hopefully I can manage to avoid it.

 

[summerisle]

Over 40,000 new cases, the most in over a month.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Today's numbers demonstrates the success of Oxford jab

 

[spectateur]

It's just a bug, bugs go around everywhere as the seasons change

It's not a new thing

But they seem to be allowed more freedom to circulate in some countries than in others.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 105 deaths were announced today, up 9 on yesterday and down 11 on last Thursday. 61 deaths were in English hospitals, down 3 on yesterday and down 12 on last week. The 7 day rolling average falls to 92.86

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 122 deaths were announced today, down 21 on yesterday and down 15 on last Thursday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 107.86

For the 60 day cut off, 153 deaths were announced today, down 23 on yesterday and down 7 on last Thursday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 133.71

 

[summerisle]

Damning, absolutely damning. This corrupt government can't walk away from this.

Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic

Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing system

www.theguardian.com

 

[Tramps_mate]

My shoulder still hurts 3 months after the jab.....

 

[verreauxi]

Somewhat off topic but the posters interested in Covid are more likely to be interested in this important development too.

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it has given its stamp of approval to a vaccine against malaria for children for the first time, after encouraging results from a pilot study that has reached hundreds of thousands of children across parts of sub-Saharan Africa since 2019. The vaccine, called Mosquirix and made by GlaxoSmithKline, is far from perfect — it produces about a 30 percent reduction in severe malaria in fully vaccinated children, which is lifesaving but smaller than would be hoped for.

But the WHO recommendation is a step forward in the fight against one of humanity’s deadliest remaining infectious disease enemies. It will likely lead to countries adding the vaccine to their childhood immunization programs starting immediately. And it’s only the first step of many to come. Researchers are already working to improve on Mosquirix, and with a combination of different approaches, it might be possible for the world to significantly cut down on malaria’s staggering human toll for good.

Game-changer for many parts of the world. Hope the vaccines are distributed quickly to those remote areas that need it.

 

[CharliePotato]

My shoulder still hurts 3 months after the jab.....

Same.